[happytobealive]

How many bachelors do you know who have turned their lives over to the service of others? I can't think of any except some good priests, and they really are married in that they've been faithful to their life-long commitment to Christ and his flock.

[Jhoffa_]

How many bachelors do you know who have turned their lives over to the service of others?

LOL!

Sorry, but I fail to see where that's a negative.

A man's service is offered to his wife out of respect for her, but it is not the way marriage is structured or defined in the Scriptures. It's given freely but cannot be demanded by the wife.

And quite frankly the very wording of your post offends me.

[Jhoffa_]

It's almost as though you get to both define the terms ("service") and the extent to which I must practice them to be worthy of life.

That's God's job.. you just let him decide what constitutes "service to others" and who is keeping up with the task..